Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

I'm inclined to agree.....not once in my life have I come across a person who defines themselves as 'European', and more pointedly, I've never even considered the question on a conscious level personally.

Means absolutely nothing to me. Nothing at all.

Sounds like something that plays well at a political level and has absolutely no relevance to the great unwashed.

I saw an absolute cracker on the help Ukrainians in Ireland page a family looking for 3 free nights in Dublin on their way to Canada cus it's their dream to visit Ireland

If I knew how to post links I'd put them up. I doubt they're trolls, they only admitted why they wanted a 3 night stay when asked. There's no getting through to you anyway you seem to keep clinging to the magical money tree. And if that's your circumstances fair play to you. But for the rest of us struggling to heat our homes, run our cars, feed ourselves etc it's hard to watch a cohort of people being prioritised by our government over the ones whose taxes are paying for it

How's the view from your ivory tower?

Relax there Brah, spoken like a true alphabet mafioso and it's not just the 50+ age group that's pissed off with the carry on in this country. Now back to twitters ville with you, you might get more back slapping for a comment like that. I agree with though in one thing lad, country is gone to the dogs and needs to wake up big time.

This FF councillor seems to think shes speaking for all Kerry...

The office of the Fianna Fáil councillor is covered in Ukrainian welcome flags and information.

Iveragh had been “screaming with years” about a downturn in population and it hugely welcomed the arrival of hundreds of Ukrainians, she said.

However, she is under no illusions about the challenges posed by the increase.

With one of only two GPs in Caherciveen set to retire in September, Ms Moriarty, a member of the health forum, said: “What remains the concern is our stretched medical services. It’s a problem they now share with us.”

Mental health services for existing residents, but also for those “traumatised” by war, are almost completely lacking.

“There will be a Ukrainian mix in South Kerry from now on — this is going to be part of our story,” she said. “They are sharing the problems of the people of South Kerry.”

In other words we are struggling already for facilities in a town of 1,000 but lets take in another 300.

Hotels are obviously happy as they are coining it and have already renewed for another 6 months which will look after the quiet winter months. You'd wonder if local businesses, restaurants etc are as happy missing out on the tourist trade.

A lot of communities, including my own are actually looking on aghast at the services that have arrived , but not for them, exclusively for Ukrainian refugees, Services Communities have been fighting for a long time and now, essentially being mocked by Virtue signalling Nonsense.

I can't speak for others , but there's not only been no integration of now , 36 Ukranian Refugees in my Tiny village, its actually been discouraged by the Host who somehow has magically brought 36 refugees to a village on the side of a mountain, with no services , arranged through FB , housing them in a disused B&B , his own home (young ,Children included) and a 3rd property he owns.

The only time these refugees are seen is a large Queue outside the local PO once a week and when they are picked up by a private, paid for bus service, 3 days a week to head to the nearest town , 22 km away.

It's utterly bizzare , quite surreal and I noticed a large delivery of Turf during the week to the B&B , suggesting these folks won't be going home any time soon.

Look in the mirror old boy 😉

Oh how the mighty have fallen 😋 .

Although, to be fair, a blow-in from Dublin is probably not considered by the natives to be any more or less desirable than a blow-in from Kyiv.

One has escaped from a place which is being over-run with feral animals who would murder them in order to steal their washing machine. You'd always be worried that they might be traumatized or even bring some of that behaviour with them to their new location. They're dumped into that area, getting Social Welfare and everything else handed to them, very little chance of them ever getting a job or contributing locally, and with nothing to do during the day except act the bowsie and cause trouble for the locals. Whereas the other one will probably just be a short term visitor until they can head back to Kyiv after the war

I believe, but not being admitted, through department of Transport, kind of an extension of the School bus arrangement. Company local and does all the local school runs. It's certainly not being paid for by Host or Refugees and no one else permitted to use the service, even if they offered to pay.

I've personally not given a thought or shyte what locals thought of Me buying a house in the locality 21 years ago bit oddly now that you say it, there was some resentment as people completely unrelated to previous owners felt they had a bizzare entitlement to my cottage, I think that's a rural thing though 😁